Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta . |
| 2 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 3 | Travel The East Anglia Tourist Board has launched the 50th anniversary celebrations of the arrival of the United States Army Airforces in Britain in 1942 . |
| 4 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 5 | Coltart has spent the last year productively , though , playing on the Swedish Golf Tour . |
| 6 | The coalition has condemned the last minute scrapping of UP and has called for the cuts to be reversed for 1993–94 . |
| 7 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 8 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |
| 9 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 10 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 11 | Robert Wilson from John O'Gaunt Golf Club has become the 40th recipient of the Gold Award in the Golf Foundation Merit Award Scheme . |
| 12 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 13 | What I have found using these criteria will be the subject of the next two chapters , of which the chick is the sole and proud subject , but the rest of this chapter will be concerned , not with my own experiments , but those of the other hunters for god 's organism whose work has dominated the last decade . |
| 14 | Oxfam 's work has brought the third world closer to home . |
| 15 | When we walk back to his flat , the sun has melted the last greyness from the sky . |
| 16 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 17 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 18 | John Hall has spent the last year receiving chemotherapy and blood transfusions in order to stay alive . |
| 19 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 20 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 21 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 22 | The Vale of White Horse district council has become the first to set its Poll Tax at £412 . |
| 23 | Leatherhead Sports Council has marked the tenth year of the Society 's association with the Leatherhead Leisure Centre with an award in recognition of the work done by teachers there . |
| 24 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 25 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 26 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 27 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 28 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 29 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 30 | There are other reasons why capitalism needs to exploit the Third World , according to Lenin . |